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Club Arnage => So You Think You Know About Le Mans => Topic started by: Christopher on October 17, 2005, 09:52:26 am

Title: Youngest winner?
Post by: Christopher on October 17, 2005, 09:52:26 am

Does anyone know who the youngest winner of Le Mans was?

And, when it was, etc?

Thank you.

Title: Re: Youngest winner?
Post by: Werner on October 17, 2005, 11:05:16 am

I think it was Alex Wurz winning in 1996 at the age of 22

Title: Re: Youngest winner?
Post by: Christopher on October 17, 2005, 11:07:41 am

Thank you, Werner.

As there are no other replies and I don't have a clue, I'll go with that.

Title: Re: Youngest winner?
Post by: Bob U on October 17, 2005, 11:12:26 am

Quote from: Werner on October 17, 2005, 11:05:16 am

I think it was Alex Wurz winning in 1996 at the age of 22

I'll go with that, he was driving the Joerst run TWR Porsche it the first of it's two consecutive wins

Title: Re: Youngest winner?
Post by: jpchenet on October 17, 2005, 02:32:17 pm

Are you only considering overall winner, or perhaps just a class win (i.e. GT2)

Title: Re: Youngest winner?
Post by: jpchenet on October 17, 2005, 02:43:45 pm

http://www.intersportracing.com/news.htm

Claims Clint Field is the youngest winner at Le Mans at 21.

He won LMP2

Title: Re: Youngest winner?
Post by: Fax on October 17, 2005, 04:56:22 pm

Without consulting a book, Chris Amon was probably the youngest overall winner in '66 but could be wrong.
Just a guess.
Fax

Title: Re: Youngest winner?
Post by: Werner on October 18, 2005, 08:52:58 am

just looked it up, Amon was born July 43, so he was 23 when he won at Le Mans in 66, one year older than Wurz was when he scored his victory in 1996

Title: Re: Youngest winner?
Post by: Mr. Rick on February 02, 2006, 01:56:50 pm

Gunnar Jeannette is the youngest ever classified finisher when he drove in 2000 in the dotty GT3-R (which proudly sported my web address on the back!).

He was a mere 18 years and a tad over a month old at the time! He was still 17 at the test weekend!!!